Writer's Digest

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The imayo is a Japanese form that was originally written to be sung, though there are no rhyming or subject constraints. The form has only the following guidelines: • Four lines• 12 syllables per line• A caesura (or pause) between the first seven syl

Artists Magazine

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If your interest runs toward illustration, then check out Thames & Hudson’s The Illustrators series. Each of these 112-page books focuses on one illustrator’s life and work, with engaging, insightful text interspersed with 80 or more historic photos

Writing Magazine

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I don’t know any poets who write a poem exactly formed. In all my long years of writing I have only once had a poem arrive swiftly – a gift as I think of it. I So, how do you begin your poems? Some of you perhaps start with a title and some of you mi

Writer's Digest

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The catena rondo is a fun poetic form created by Robin Skelton, author of The Shapes of Our Singing. He took the name from catena, which means chain, and connected it with rondo, which means circle. And the poem is a bit of a “chain circle” because o

Writing Magazine

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Win £5,000 for a single poem in the Poetry London Prize 2021. The Poetry London Prize is a major international competition given annually for original, unpublished poems in any form, up to eighty lines in length. There is a first prize of £5,000, a s

The Millions

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The 2019 Man Booker Prize shortlist is here! The post Man Booker Prize Names 2019 Shortlist appeared first on The Millions.

Country Life

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“What do you want?” “I’ve come to meet Beatrix Potter.” “Well, you’ve seen her. Now buzz off” Roald Dahl, on trying to speak to Potter in her Lake District garden when he was six What is remarkable about these books is that we adults can go on adm

The Atlantic

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Readers discuss whether “erisology”—a new discipline studying unsuccessful disagreement—can usefully augment the work of preexisting fields.

DIVA

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By Joelle Taylor The T.S. Eliot Prize winner serves up butch visibility. The Westbourne Press, £10.99 By Vivek Shraya Listen to QTIPOC voices: that includes poets. Arsenal Pulp Press, £16.95 By Kae Tempest Don’t forget to also listen to the album for

Writing Magazine

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The shortlists for the 50th Costa Book Awards (Whitbread from 1971-2005) was announced in November. The nominated books were: 2021 Costa First Novel Award: The Manningtree Witches, AK Blakemore; Fault Lines, Emily Itami; Open Water, Caleb Azumah Nels

Writing Magazine

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The Wigtown Poetry Prize is open for entries The international Scottish poetry competition, which was refreshed and rebranded in 2019, welcomes entries from poets from anywhere in the world. There are prizes in various categories: • The Wigtown Prize

Country Life

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‘I worshipped Dylan. I thought he was a great poet, a great reader... If ever’ I thought a man had a touch of divinity, it was Dylan John Arlott, cricket commentator, friend and fellow poet ‘Unlike Eliot, Thomas accepted man as he was: he had a rel

Writing Magazine

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Two ‘extraordinary’ books exploring survival and our relationship with nature have won this year’s CILIP Carnegie and Greenaway Medals, the UK’s oldest prizes for writing for children. UK author Anthony McGowan’s novella Lark takes the Carnegie Medal

Writing Magazine

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The Wigtown Poetry Prize has £1,500 and £500 prizes, with £500 and £200 in categories for entries in Scots and Scottish Gaelic, for poems up to forty lines, as well as special prizes of mentoring, for the Dumfries and Galloway Fresh Voice Award, and

Writer's Digest

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The huitain is a French poetic form that is quite musical when done well. Here are the basic rules: • Eight lines per poem (or stanza)• Eight to 10 syllables per line (but consistent within the poem)• Rhyme scheme: ababbcbc Here are a couple of examp

North & South

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This is a technically dazzling collection of poems, most of them short, all of them showing care and conviction. Take, for instance, the three found poems. Finding poems is not difficult – all those shopping lists other people leave in their trolleys

The Australian Women's Weekly

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Acclaimed British novelist Sebastian Faulks grew up with books. “My mother would read to us, sometimes children’s books, but also bits of Dickens. My brother and I were both keener on outdoor games at the time, but I developed my own reading habits w

The Big Issue

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It’s not much to ask. Just a door to lock. A door that won’t break when someone kicks it. Door with a keyhole. Respond to that knock Or not. My choice. It’s broke so let’s fix it: The world, I mean. Not the door. That’s OK. It’s my door, to my room.

Writing Magazine

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When this competition was set, it was suggested that we all need something to smile about. The response from readers proved how many people agree. The avalanche of funny poems covered humour in all its different guises, but very few could be put asid

Woman & Home

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Based on the children’s book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, this animated tale sees friendly dragon Zog (Hugh Skinner) and friends form a ‘flying doctors’ team. Sir Lenny Henry narrates. BBC1 It’s Christmas 1965, and a circus has arrived in P

Writing Magazine

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WINNER: KAREN PAILING Jam tarts were just the start of it: I knewAt first bite that I’d polish off the lot.Coffee and walnet cake, tiramisu,Kept beckoning me back. I can’t think what Olfactory enchantment made me strayFrom self-restraint to gluttony

Writing Magazine

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In the midst of a severe Covid lockdown, the challenge of writing a perfect poem for WM’s Open Competition offered a happier focus, and was embraced by legions of Writing Magazine poets, resulting in a wealth of entries. Although these covered many a

Writing Magazine

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The Snapshot Press Book Awards 2021 are given for unpublished book-length collections of haiku, tanka and other short poetry. Winners will have their collections published by Snapshot Press. Collections entered for the Snapshot Press Book Awards 2021

Writer's Digest

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Imagine a poetic form in which you can write whatever you want. That almost describes the descort, which is distinct from other poetic forms through its own internal differentiation. In fact, the guiding principle of the descort is that each line sho

Country Life

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• John Clare I love the little pond to mark at spring • George Orwell Some Thoughts on the Common Toad • William Shakespeare Sonnet 98 • Rev Gilbert White The Naturalist’s Journal, February–May, 1780 • Richard Jefferies Hours of Spring • Robert Brown

Writing Magazine

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The next quarterly Cranked Anvil Short Story Competition is inviting entries, with prizes of £150, £75 and £30 and anthology publication. Enter stories on any theme up to 1,500 words. The entry fee is £5 for one and £8 for two. The closing date is 31

Writer's Digest

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The quintilla is a Spanish quintain (or five-line) form based around an ab rhyme scheme and eight-syllable lines. But there’s a catch: None of the stanzas can end on a rhyming couplet. As such, each quintain must have one of the following rhyme patte

Cinema Scope

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Since his legendary 1967 debut, Titicut Follies, the now 90-year-old Frederick Wiseman has completed more than 40 features, which, taken together, constitute a prodigious catalogue of the American experience over the last half-century as revealed thr

Writing Magazine

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First prize is £1,000 in the New Welsh Writing Awards 2021. The prize is open to fiction and non-fiction, as long as it has a Welsh theme or setting. Entries should be 5,000-30,000 words. The winner will receive an e-publishing deal and feedback from

Artists Magazine

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The Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was a statue representing the sun-god Helios. Attributed to Chares of Lindos, it was erected on the Greek island/city of Rhodes in 220 B.C. to commemorate the city’s victory follo